408 pages
English language
Published 1980 by Macmillan India Ltd.

Rabindranath Tagore: Gora. (1980, Macmillan India Ltd)
408 pages
English language
Published 1980 by Macmillan India Ltd.
Gora (Bengali: গোরা) is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set in Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the 1880s during the British Raj. It is the fifth in order of writing and the longest of Tagore’s twelve novels. It is rich in philosophical debate on politics and religion. Other themes include liberation, universalism, brotherhood, gender, feminism, caste, class, tradition versus modernity, urban elite versus rural peasants, colonial rule, nationalism and the Brahmo Samaj.